Golden Assistant 42

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Chapter 42 - I'll Lent My Wife To You All To Compose Songs

Music was a form of language, just like how mathematics was also a language. The language of mathematics would take a person into the mysterious world of rationality, and the language of music allowed you to glimpse all the inner fantasies that could not be materialized to the surface. Xiao Yi listened to Lu Zhou's stammering for a long while with a dazed expression, and just an - oh, okay, got it, and nothing was processed at all. 

"This is the second level." Lu Zhou said, "The second level of a character, his heart, you used music to set forth this character, you know?!!!"

Xiao Yi remained puzzled: "Shit."

Lu Zhou: "Is this a piece of your own composing??!!!"

Xiao Yi: "The original song is from Strauss...... I just, improvised it a little."

Lu Zhou: "Can it be a theme song for Zheng Changrong?"

Xiao Yi: "No way, no way, I'll be scolded, it's not my work. Actually, I don't know much about Western music, uh, I think I'm better at folk music."

Lu Zhou said: "Can you play the tune again, you remember it?"

Xiao Yi nodded and played it again. This time, Lu Zhou stood with his back to Xiao Yi in front of the French windows, closed his eyes, and listened to the whole tune in silence.

"This second time was not so shocking." Lu Zhou said, "The first time was extremely shocking, so shocking that I almost peed."

Xiao Yi: "......"

Xiao Yi smiled and said: "I don't know how you can be both emotional in voice and expression, repeating a line so many times with so much emotion. If it was me, I would have emotions for the first time, but if I have to repeat them for the second time, it will just be weak."

Lu Zhou nodded and said: "So, the best stage for all dramas is the moment right at the beginning. If you want to act well, your intuition accounts for at least 70%. If the feeling is right, it'll be the best drama. This time I can remember the lines, as long as there is music...... this will work!"

Xiao Yi said: "I'll play it for you again? I'll put in a little more engrossed this time?"

Lu Zhou said: "Let's do it again."

Xiao Yi went in again with emotions for Zheng Changrong. This time he was exhausted from playing. Lu Zhou yelled the lines in the midst of the music: "I'm not willing——!"

Xiao Yi thought that if this scene was seen by others, they would definitely feel that there were two mental patients having a meeting......

The next morning, Xiao Yi drove with two dark eye circles, while Lu Zhou was refreshed with a relaxed face.

"I think the screenwriter didn't think that much when she was writing about this character." Xiao Yi said, "You talk to her about the exterior and interior of the character, she'll probably think, ‘what, are you thinking too much' right."

"The screenwriter wouldn't think so." Lu Zhou said, "It's very normal. She relies on intuition when she writes drama scripts, and she intensifies her creative skills and experiences. No matter how well-written a character is, it is still a two-dimensional character. The actor gives the character its soul, derives it and expands its roots. The character has no past. Except for what is explained in the script, the rest is a blank, but the life of the actor fills up all the blanks in the character. "

Xiao Yi said: "Can you memorize the lines?"

"The lines are trivial." Lu Zhou said, "Look and see the film emperor's performance."

Xiao Yi laughed. He stopped the car, pulled out the car key, and followed Lu Zhou into the studio.

Today was not the filming of the scene "I’ve been working hard for the boss for many years". It was just a warm-up in advance. Everyone had arrived, and Lu Zhou finished his makeup. This was a scene where Zheng Changrong sneaked into the building to steal confidential archives. Usually the filming for this kind of scene was to take a shot of the entire building from the outside, and then cut it into the interior.

The Police Department Building had nothing to do with Lu Zhou. He was only responsible for the scenes of killing the security guards and stealing documents.

The surroundings were completely blocked by light-shielding panels. In the well-arranged communication room, lights came in from all directions, and the fluorescent lamps flashed in and hung over Lu Zhou's head.

In the communication room, another old actor was sitting.

The air-conditioning had been turned on to the maximum, but it felt like nothing. Xiao Yi was so hot that he squatted on the side of the crew, panting with his tongue out. Today, Beijing was close to forty degrees, and Lu Zhou was still wearing a black windbreaker, police pants, and police boots...... Oh my god, he would definitely die if he acted in these conditions.

Director Huang wore a tank top and shorts, shaking a folding fan in his hand back and forth.

Lu Zhou had a scene, it required him to make a drop of sweat drip from the side of his face, and it was even a close-up.

Before going in front of the camera, Lu Zhou drank a large bottle of water. When he went over, he stood in the corridor, turned sideways, and faced the camera.

The director watched for a while, no.

So Lu Zhou was repeatedly smothered in heat, sweating and acting in that scene.

Water did not look natural, only real sweat could work so the facial expression and skin would have that feeling.

Xiao Yi thought that this scene was really not to be shot by humans. Fortunately, he did not take the proposed adaptation. In it, there was some blood vomiting. He would rather Lu Zhou sweat and be tossed here than to vomit blood.

Xiao Yi browsed Lu Zhou's WeChat account while watching, peeping at what he said in the WeChat group again.

Lu Zhou: 【"Brothers! I'll lend my wife to you to write songs! One song for four hundred thousand!"】

Zheng Xiaocong: 【"Scram!"】

Xiao Yi: "......"

It took a full day to shoot half a scene. At night, all the panels were removed and re-adjusted. Xiao Yi was smacking mosquitoes on the side. Lu Zhou was already a little dizzy. He said to the director: "Let's take a rest Director Huang, it's too hot."

Director Huang was unsatisfied with the sweating effect, so he switched to opening the door, then closing the door after opening, and before closing the door, there would be a gloomy look in Lu Zhou's eyes. He was about to return to the place where he had worked at for many years and kill his former boss and colleagues. That look was extremely complicated. This was how Director Huang described it.

"Just imagine that Zheng Changrong is a dog." Director Huang said, "That kind of fierce expression of a dog, he has made up his mind and can't turn back. Have you ever seen the expression of a dog before it bit someone?"

Xiao Yi really admitted defeat to this director. Lu Zhou thought for a while and said: "I can understand."

Director Huang said: "Come, let's see the situation first."

Now that Xiao Yi was thinking about it, he suddenly felt that the director was right. But to act as a dog, this was no longer a question of acting skills, he wanted cross-species communication right?

What shocked Xiao Yi even more was that when Lu Zhou turned around, he could actually act it out!!

Xiao Yi felt chaotic, as if within the winds. What was this all about ah ah ah ah, so a person could act out a dog's expression?!

"Cut." Director Huang said, "A bit lacking."

I think it's great——! Xiao Yi just wanted to clip the director to death with a clapperboard. This didn't pass! What more does he want!

The director started explaining about the scene again. Lu Zhou listened carefully, and went up after communicating for a while. This take passed.

Xiao Yi: "......"

There was no difference between the two takes. Xiao Yi could no longer understand the thought process of these people's impossibly high standards. Lu Zhou acted very seriously, and Xiao Yi was not surprised, but the crew were. When they spoke in a low volume, they all felt that Lu Zhou acted very well, and many people had a look of admiration.

Of course he is good. Xiao Yi was expressionlessly eating ice cream while thinking with all kinds of joy in his heart, He is also very big below, his waist strength is also very good, and his bed skills are even better. Unfortunately, you all will never experience it...

Lu Zhou was about to collapse after he had finished acting for the day. After he returned home, Xiao Yi immediately gave him mung bean soup to cool off the heat. However, he was afraid of diarrhea and did not dare to cool him down too much either so he cooked porridge to eat at home, but Lu Zhou did not have any appetite. He only drank some congee and ate some side dishes, then went upstairs to lay down.

Sure enough, filming would cause massive weight lose, it was too toiling.

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The next day, Xiao Yi drove Lu Zhou to film again. He was busying around behind the scenes waiting for him to finish shooting, and also bought some cooling stickers to put them on him.

This time it was an interrogation scene. The male protagonist questioned Lu Zhou in a dimly lit room. Lu Zhou raised his head and did not say any long lines, but mainly relied on his eyes, expressions, movements, sneers, and short sentences. No matter how the protagonist questioned him, he could not get anything useful.

Xiao Yi had to admire the screenwriter and he loved her very much, because she had written lesser lines. Lu Zhou would not get stuck like this.

"I really am going to love Lu Zhou to death." The screenwriter also came and whispered, "He acts so well."

"Say it!" A supporting actor shouted, and then gave Lu Zhou a slap.

Lu Zhou's head was suddenly violently turned sideways. Xiao Yi's heart was gripped, and he thought, The hit was real ah! 

"Cut." The director said, "No, again."

Lu Zhou was sitting on a chair in handcuffs, and drenched in sweat. The makeup artist came over to reapply makeup. He had a bruised nose and swollen face, and was covered in blood. The shirt was sticking to his body, showing his perfect muscle contours.

Xin Hongkai got up, holding a hat and fan to drink water. Xiao Yi brought the water over and gave Lu Zhou a few mouthfuls before starting again.

The director grinded the shots one by one. Once Lu Zhou and Xin Hongkai started to act against each other, the superiority was immediately obvious. Xin Hongkai was half popular and half not. He had also became popular in Taiwan and Hong Kong before, but his popularity followed alongside the Hong Kong film market and dwindled down. Xin Hongkai then moved his main market, and all his investments were targeted towards the mainland market.

The cruel, forbearing and perverted male charm that Lu Zhou exuded was simply irresistible. Fortunately, the supporting role did not need to exert all his force, it fell short of full force every time.

Lu Zhou faced the supporting actor and said: "Let's do it for real, pass it in one shot this time."

It started.

"Say it!" The supporting actor shouted angrily.

The slap caused Lu Zhou's head to shift excessively. The blood bubble in his teeth was bitten, and the blood flew out.

"Ok!" The director shouted, "Cut!"

When Lu Zhou came over, Xiao Yi immediately looked at his face. Lu Zhou replied: "It doesn't matter, is there any room temperature water......"

"Stomach hurts?" Xiao Yi asked.

"A bit......" Lu Zhou replied.

Xiao Yi said: "Do you want to go to the bathroom?"

Lu Zhou waved it off. He drank the water and went on to act again. This time the performance was even better. Xiao Yi completely filtered out Xin Hongkai automatically and only looked at Lu Zhou.

Lu Zhou’s expressions were all distorted and convulsive. In the scene where Hu Ying tried Zheng Changrong, the depression, suffering, and danger in the cell were simply acted to the extreme. Lu Zhou’s face was pale, with scars on his face, and the corners of his mouth were bleeding. But there was a dangerous look in his eyes.

"Tell you one thing." Lu Zhou's lips moved slightly.

Xin Hongkai: "Speak."

Xin Hongkai looked at Lu Zhou warily, and the director shouted "Cut".

"Hu Ying's expression is wrong," The director said.

Xiao Yi was immediately enraged. He could see that Xin Hongkai did not control himself, and that he was taken into the scene by Lu Zhou! He was afraid of Lu Zhou. Hu Ying should be feeling sympathetic at this time, but Xin Hongkai showed that he was scared and wanted to kill Zheng Changrong instead.

"This is the confrontation."

In the evening after they had knocked off,  Lu Zhou leaned tiredly in the back seat and said: "Every movie, what you see on the big screen, is a confrontation."

"I didn't feel it at all before." Xiao Yi said, "It's amazing, it's just like you and Xin Hongkai are fighting!"

"Oppositional scene." Lu Zhou said, "Otherwise why is it called a rivalry drama? What do you think? What you see, all the rivalry dramas, not counting money laundering movies, they're indeed full of the enemies' tricks. You have to catch my act and deliver the feelings back. Outside the scene, it is the male lead and the male supporting lead, but not in the scene. In the scene, they're the two people who are written in the script. This is life."

"Understood." Xiao Yi was convinced, nodding in benefit to the explanation.

This month has been the hardest time since he had followed Lu Zhou. It was much harder than filming a TV series. He used to think that Lu Zhou could do anything, but now he was always worried, for fear that Lu Zhou would not be able to live up to the task. However, he gradually discovered that Lu Zhou was like a fish back in the waters in the movie. 

TV dramas rely on lines to show a character's personality, while movies rely on the camera lens' language. Xiao Yi gradually understood this kind of actors. Sometimes he asked the director why he shot that way and most of the time, the director would explain to Xiao Yi.

"There is a lot of knowledge to learn in filming." Xiao Yi said to Lu Zhou.

Lu Zhou explained: "I still think composition is amazing, just three chords going together, and you can compose a song. How do you do it?"

Xiao Yi said: "My senior brother can press three notes, and conduct with the three voices together, but I can't."

Lu Zhou asked: "Do symphony orchestras compose the same way?"

Xiao Yi shook his head and said: "Most of them compose one part first, and then another part."

Lu Zhou: "You never talk about your profession."

"It's boring to talk about professions." Xiao Yi was looking at Lu Zhou holding a gun while moving back at the same time. 

According to the regulations, all movies shown in China must not contain guns, firearms and other related contents. Otherwise, they would be banned, but anti-Japanese dramas was fine.

However, Hong Kong-produced films could be filmed inland as long as they have been submitted for approval. However, when taking inland scenes, it could be stated that this place was inland. By default, it was still in Hong Kong or abroad.

As a result, the producer hit a loophole. Xiao Yi had to admire the powerful wisdom of the people and the broadcasting and television departments, and was able to witness the use of guns borrowed from the Bayi Factory during his lifetime.

He always thought that a gunfight movie was just a few gestures with empty guns, and relied on post-production special effects to spice things up at the end. He did not expect the crew to use a real modified gun, and there were even empty bullets. Mainland actors did not like to take gunfights movies, or there were very few gunfight scenes. Except for anti-Japanese dramas and Republican dramas, most mainland movie stars were not familiar with filming gunfights.

But Lu Zhou was very familiar with it. He learned how to act in gunfights when he was doing miscellaneous work in a crew as a supporting role. He picked up the gun and seemed like a veteran when looking at it. After the gun expert explained for a while, he did not need anyone to guide him anymore and practiced by himself.

"Let me have some fun with it." Xiao Yi said, wagging his tail beside him.

"Play with your head!" Lu Zhou yelled while holding the gun, "This can used to play?! Do you know how easy it is to accidentally discharge!"

Xiao Yi screamed: "Don't point your gun at the supporting role if you are afraid of accidental discharge! What if it happens!"

Lu Zhou immediately said: "Sorry, sorry......"

Xiao Yi had no choice but to only watch, but the gun expert said: "Assistant you need to move away a little bit, don't get too close."

It would take one week for Lu Zhou to test the guns, deploy, and use them proficiently, followed by learning the martial arts instructors' and action directors' designed moves.

Xiao Yi reminded again: "Will your shoulders feel uncomfortable?"

Lu Zhou waved his hand to signify no. The gun expert walked away, and Lu Zhou waved to Xiao Yi again, and said: "Come."

Xiao Yi: "......"

Lu Zhou asked him to stand in front of him. Facing the target, he exhaled. Holding Xiao Yi's hands with his big hands, the two people hugged each other intimately. Lu Zhou said: "Try it, you can aim."

Lu Zhou looked back at the director again, like a kid who was afraid of being caught for unruly. Xiao Yi only felt both excited and fresh, and he pulled the trigger and made a loud bang.

"All right."

"Play again......"

"You'll get me fired later, so no more playing!"

"Bang!"

"Enough!"

"Let's fire another shot......"

"You...... Stop it!"

"I'll shout."

Lu Zhou: "......"

"There's no more bullets!" Lu Zhou gritted his teeth, "Do you know how much a bullet costs!

A laughing Xiao Yi was taken to a corner by Lu Zhou to stand there.

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